The Bailiffs House
The Bailiffs House, 36, Church Street, Wye, Ashford, TN25 5BL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1216736
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1957
- List Entry Name:
- The Bailiffs House
- Statutory Address:
- The Bailiffs House, 36, Church Street, Wye, Ashford, TN25 5BL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1216736
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1957
- List Entry Name:
- The Bailiffs House
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Bailiffs House, 36, Church Street, Wye, Ashford, TN25 5BL
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- The Bailiffs House, 36, Church Street, Wye, Ashford, TN25 5BL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wye with Hinxhill
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 05413 46815
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17 April 2024 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TR 0446 0546
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WYE
CHURCH STREET (east side)
No. 36, The Bailiffs House
(Formerly listed as No. 36 (The Old Manor House))
27.11.57
GV
II*
House. Late C16. Red brick in English bond with tile hanging to rear wing. Plain tiled roof. Two cell lobby entry plan with rear service wing. Two storeys on plinth with kneelered parapet gable to right, and truncated stack projecting at end right, and stack at end left with octagonal bases to truncated round chimney shafts. Catslide outshot to left. Two three-light wooden casements on each floor and old boarded door to left in moulded and stop-chamfered doorway. Garage doors to left in outshot. Kneelered parapet gabled rear wing, partly tile hung.
Interior: contemporary staircase rising to attic with finialed principals. Ovolo moulded window mullions (with some C17 glass). Inglenook fireplaces. Clasped purlin and wind-brace roof. "Feare God Honour ye King Thomas Miller 1701" inscribed in attic plasterwork.
The house was not the manor house, but the Bailiff's house and used as the town's prison. It originally stood alone in the Green opposite the Church, Market cross and College. (See Wye Local History Magazine A.M. Paterson).
Listing NGR: TR0541346816
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 411382
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wye Local History Magazine in Wye Local History Magazine, ()
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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